Cern courier: Developing medical linacs for challenging regions

Novel linacs will help to make radiotherapy more widely available. Continue reading

Cern courier: Faces & Places

• French Physical Society presents awards • Geneva physicists share Wolf Prize • New LHCb spokesperson elected • DG speaks on open science • Celebrating 50 years of neutron science at ILL • Visits • DUNE collaboration meeting comes to CERN • Daresbury accelerator workshop focuses on electron–positron factories • Hadronic contributions to new-physics searches • Quark confinement and the hadron spectrumread more Continue reading

Cern courier: GSI ions target irregular heartbeat

Cern courier: Going underground

Civil engineering for the High-Luminosity LHC is ready to begin. Continue reading

Cern courier: On the trail of the HL-LHC magnets

Dispatches from two US labs that are helping to build the advanced magnets and “crab” cavities for the High-Luminosity LHC. Continue reading

Cern courier: Obituaries

• Thomas Dombeck 1945–2016 • Sidney Drell 1926–2016 • M G K Menon 1928–2016 • Helmut Oeschler 1945–2017 Continue reading

Cern courier: From the March 1974 issue

Cern courier: Bookshelf

• Modern Atomic Physics • Books received Continue reading